Making effective donations to charity with Peter Singer
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What is effective altruism and why is it important?
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How did Peter Singer become involved in effective giving?
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Kate, I feel like each fortnight we get a chance to sit down with someone that is kind of extraordinary in their own way. And today, I feel like that would be an understatement. We have someone with us who is doing things that, I mean, you just have to stand back and admire from a distance. And sometimes, like now, you get up close and personal and you can actually ask some questions of your own. So... Kate, I might do the intro for this one. We're chatting to Peter Singer. And if I just do a very short intro to Peter, it won't do him justice. But just some of the notes that we've got here is Peter is one of the world's leading moral philosophers.
What role do individuals play in supporting global poverty reduction?
He's a professor of bioethics at Princeton University. He's the author and co-founder of a book and a website that you can go and visit now, The Life You Can Save. It's an organization that inspires and empowers people to take action in the fight against extreme poverty. Peter, on behalf of Kate and I, it's our pleasure to have you with us.
Thank you very much, Owen, for that generous introduction, and I'm happy to be with you and with Kate.
maybe peter what we can do to start off with is maybe just i guess this is we're going to try and fit this into a very concise answer but maybe you can just give us a bit of your backstory and how you came to be involved in such an important topic oh well uh i don't know where the story begins exactly but i suppose it really begins with the decision to go into philosophy uh i originally
studied to do law and the arts was kind of a little side issue to make the law degree a little bit more interesting, but I ended up then getting a scholarship to go to Oxford and study philosophy there. And I was always interested in the areas of philosophy that made a difference to your life. So clearly that was gonna be ethics and perhaps political philosophy. And even when I was, well, when I was just a student or still at Oxford, I started thinking about the obligations of people who, like myself, were living a comfortable material life in an affluent country as in regard to people who were in extreme poverty and extreme need.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is effective altruism and why is it important?
0:00–1:25
2
How did Peter Singer become involved in effective giving?
1:25–2:47
3
What role do individuals play in supporting global poverty reduction?
2:47–6:49
4
How can we determine the most effective charities to support?
6:49–9:55
5
What is the cost of saving a life through donations?
9:55–13:28
6
How much should we give to charity based on our income?
13:28–16:35
7
Are there too many charities, and does this create inefficiencies?
16:35–19:37
8
How can our careers contribute to effective altruism?
19:37–35:36
Speakers
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